Videos on youtube.com won’t play on desktop
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| webbrowser-app |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Olivier Tilloy | ||
| oxide-qt (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
| webbrowser-app (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Olivier Tilloy | ||
Bug Description
Currently the Youtube webapp fails to play any videos on desktop with Oxide 1.4. When I try it, I see messages like this in the console:
qml: [JS] (https:/
This is an expected change - Blink now treats XHR as active content instead of inactive content, so it gets blocked by the mixed content blocker.
Changing the user agent string to the Chrome one seems to make it work again, so this will require a corresponding update to webbrowser-app with a user agent string override
Related branches
- PS Jenkins bot: Needs Fixing (continuous-integration)
- Ubuntu Phablet Team: Pending requested
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Diff: 16 lines (+2/-1)1 file modifiedsrc/Ubuntu/Web/ua-overrides-desktop.js (+2/-1)
| Changed in webbrowser-app (Ubuntu): | |
| assignee: | nobody → Olivier Tilloy (osomon) |
| Changed in webbrowser-app (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| Olivier Tilloy (osomon) wrote | #1 |
| summary: |
- Updates for Oxide 1.4 + Videos on youtube.com won’t play on desktop |
| Changed in oxide-qt (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Invalid |
| no longer affects: | oxide |
| Changed in canonical-devices-system-image: | |
| importance: | Undecided → Critical |
| milestone: | none → ww05-2015 |
| status: | New → In Progress |
| summary: |
- Videos on youtube.com won’t play on desktop + Videos on youtube.com won’t play |
| no longer affects: | canonical-devices-system-image |
| summary: |
- Videos on youtube.com won’t play + Videos on youtube.com won’t play on desktop |
| Changed in webbrowser-app (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Confirmed → In Progress |
| Changed in webbrowser-app: | |
| status: | New → In Progress |
| importance: | Undecided → High |
| assignee: | nobody → Olivier Tilloy (osomon) |
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in webbrowser-app (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | In Progress → Fix Released |
| tags: | added: youtube |
| Changed in webbrowser-app: | |
| status: | In Progress → Fix Released |
| Changed in webbrowser-app (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Undecided → High |
Just tested in a (fully up-to-date) vivid VM with oxide 1.3.5, and I’m seeing the same error when trying to play back a youtube video. The same happens on my utopic desktop with oxide 1.3.4. So it looks like it’s not a regression introduced by oxide 1.4, but an issue that was there already.